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Plus, collars are expensive and collaring requires capturing wolves first-a huge and stressful undertaking for all involved, said Root-Gutteridge. (See an interactive on the return of the wolf.)Finally, you can play howl recordings to wolves and listen to their replies-which can carry six miles (ten kilometers)-but you can’t identify individuals and don’t know when one animal is repeating itself or when a new howler has joined in.DNA analysis of scat has its place, but it is costly and requires finding the wolves first.Now that the new technique has been shown to succeed with wild animals, the team sees it as a tool to help conserve wolves in their natural habitats. (See more wolf pictures.)For instance, tracking howls accurately could make future wolf counts and monitoring of individuals much more precise. If plans go forward to fully drop the gray wolf from the U.S. Endangered Species list and let states do as they please regarding hunting, better monitoring could over time help determine if it was too soon to strip away those last protective rules, as many conservationists argue.The technology could also be put to use with other canids like African wild dogs and Ethiopian wolves, both of which are endangered in their habitats, said Root-Gutteridge.”If it howls, the code can extract it and we can identify it.”Follow Jennifer S. Holland on Twitter or check out her website at

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Few wild animals have captivated the human imagination like the wolf (Canis lupus), considered to be North America’s dominant carnivore. Other than the great apes, there are few animals that are as similar to humans in terms of their social organization and family structure. The indigenous peoples of the Americas understood this, frequently depicting the wolf in their art and oral histories. Their paintings and stories often displayed wolf and human joined as one powerful creature. In some legends, the wolf is given healing powers, and in others, the wolf saves people from a great flood. Ray Pierotti and Brandy R. Fogg detail how The Blackfoot, Lakota and Cheyenne claim to have learned to hunt from wolves, and believed that “wolves live lives that parallel those of humans, and thus represent another people that must be respected.”